Start a job

This test procedure calls the Prod.JobExec.StartJob Stateless API method to verify that a date entered on a Work Tasks form on a machine with one regional setting is correctly recorded in an MES database on a machine with a different regional setting for the following fields:

• job.act_start_time_utc

• job.act_start_time_local

• job_event.event_time_utc

• job_event.event_time_local

• job_history.job_start_utc

• job_history.job_start_local

When supplying a local time (that is, the client/browser's local time) to the database, the database assumes that the local time is for the entity. The UTC time is determined based on the entity's local time. Similarly, when the UTC time is supplied to the database, the database determines the local time for the entity using the supplied entity's UTC time.

The process for creating the Start a Job test procedure is the same as that described in Add a job, with exceptions as noted in the following topics.